By Anonymous - 17/05/2014 16:02 - United States - Elko

Today, my boss yet again said she was "literally dying", after she watched a funny video online. Long story short, I'm now on her shitlist because I couldn't help but point out that she clearly wasn't dying, and that her ranting was distracting me from doing actual work. FML
I agree, your life sucks 37 731
You deserved it 18 525

Same thing different taste

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If people knew how to language we wouldn't have this problem

You could've helped it, but didn't. Now you know better than to correct the boss on non-essential matters. Use this knowledge at your next job.

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I swear to Eris it makes me grind my teeth when people use "literally" when they mean "practically" I'd have done the same thing, frankly.

Ugh, I HATE it when people do that. FIGURATIVELY PEOPLE!

rawlings123 17

Good! Hopefully she listened and we have one less idiot to deal with

I love that "literally dying"video.. It's halarious

Nope nope nope. Boss is a boss and you're dumb for correcting her. Even if she is a huge dingus. :) Next time just let her be stupid on her own.

"don't correct your boss" the OP can say what he wants, and to the people giving him a YDI,eff you

Actually, the word now has a new definition added to the dictionary: word used for emphasis. So she's correct actually.

Heard of a figure-of-speech? Hyperbole, I believe it's called